Pat Buchanan Is Out At MSNBC — And He Is NOT Happy

The ousting was over Buchanan's controversial book,
"Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to
2025?" MSNBC's president Phil Griffin had asked Buchanan not
to appear on the network while he was promoting the book, which
includes ideas about the connection between ethnic diversity and
America's decline that civil rights organizations have deemed
racist and anti-Semitic.

Buchanan has not appeared on the network since October. And now
he's out for good.

In a
blog post for The American Conservative published today,
Buchanan lashed out at the Anti-Defamation League and Color of
Change for seeking his firing.

After going point by point through the criticisms of his book,
Buchanan really turned up the heat in the closing
paragraphs:

The modus operandi of these thought police at
Color of Change and ADL is to brand as racists and anti-Semites
any writer who dares to venture outside the narrow corral in
which they seek to confine debate. All the while prattling about
their love of dissent and devotion to the First Amendment, they
seek systematically to silence and censor dissent.

Without a hearing, they smear and stigmatize as racist,
homophobic, or anti-Semitic any who contradict what George Orwell
once called their “smelly little orthodoxies.” They then demand
that the heretic recant, grovel, apologize, and pledge to go
forth and sin no more.

Defy them, and they will go after the network where you work, the
newspapers that carry your column, the conventions that invite
you to speak. If all else fails, they go after the advertisers.

I know these black listers. They operate behind closed doors,
with phone calls, mailed threats, and off-the-record meetings.
They work in the dark because, as Al Smith said, nothing
un-American can live in the sunlight.

You can still catch Buchanan on The McLaughlin Group, where he
can be found yelling at a bunch of political analysts most
Sundays.